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Discover behind-the-scenes stories from Te Papa’s experts, including curators, scientists, historians, collection managers, and educators.

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Guess who’s coming to dinner? Ethel Tweedie’s celebrity table-cloths

2016-10-13
By: Claire Regnault
On: 13 Oct 2016

History curator Claire Regnault discusses why signature cloths become ‘a thing’ and what their purpose was for.Read more

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